If people are well paid for reality television and cotton candy and dunking a basketball, why can't they be well paid for changing young minds?

If people are well paid for reality television and cotton candy and dunking a basketball, why can't they be well paid for changing young minds?

It's not always enough to be brave, I realized years later. You have to be brave and contribute something positive, too. Brave on its own is just a party trick.

I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found stand-up as a more creative outlet, as a 3D way to be creative.

I'm a believer in trusting the director.

There's always going to be one more thing. Because that's what infinite feels like. And the difference between love and everything else is that it's infinite, it's built out of something infinite, or it feels like it is, anyway, which is the same thing to us. You think a million billion more things will come your way, a million billion more versions of everything. But no, everything that actually causes that infinite feeling, the circumstances of every infinite feeling, is so, so finite.

I think it's better to not know certain things. It gives the world an extra bit of mystery, which is important to us as human beings.